My long time good friend Jeff Roth, just launched a new blog called SuperAffiliateLifestyle.com!
Jeff and I go back a long time, back to my network marketing days where I recruited him into my downline at a local Barnes & Nobles in NJ (I was visiting my parents at the time).
That was in Dec 2002, almost 5 years ago from today.
How both our lives have changed in the last 5 years is an AMAZING story.
Back then Jeff & I were both college students, he was doing his undergrad in economics, and I was a grad student in physics.
We were both dead broke, I mean REALLY broke. But you know what, we had a dream of a better future, we had a dream of being financially free with a solid passive income coming in month after month.
I promised Jeff that I would help him become financially free.
For the next two years we busted our butts trying to build our network marketing business. We were willing to do whatever it took to become financially free, at the time we just didn’t know that we were in the wrong vehicle!
You know I laugh when I hear an affiliate sobbing about how he launched 3 campaigns and they all fizzled out. Try cold contacting 100s of people of week with a success rate of less than 1%.
Then you’ll know what real pain is.
I finally came to my senses Jan 2005; I walked away from network marketing and Jeff soon followed. At the time he was pretty pissed at me, he was in my downline and I had quit on him. After all I had basically promised him : “Stick with me and you’ll be rich!” Right!
But I have no regrets, I just knew I had made the right decision.
Around 6 months after I quit that business, I discovered ppc affiliate marketing. My friends and family rolled their eyes thinking : “Here he goes again!”
When I told Jeff about affiliate marketing he was initially skeptical, like that was surprising after all the promises I had made to him in our past business.
Well, somehow I managed to persuade Jeff into trying out affiliate marketing. This was around Oct 2005.
After a month and about 10 failed campaigns, neither Jeff nor I had anything to show for our efforts. Jeff figured I had sucked him into another scam so he quit. Now given what had happened in the past I honestly don’t blame him! LOL
Jumping ahead to March 2006, I was making $10k profit a month at that point. I told Jeff about how much I was making and he was suddenly interested again!
Jeff had a couple things going for him, as he talks about on his blog, he hated his boss, she was a total B***CH.
He was really motivated to quit his job.
He was also a great student, he listened to EXACTLY what I said and immediately APPLIED it.
The dude quit his job in 3 MONTHS.
3 stinking months!
And he’s NEVER looked back.
Over the last years his business has absolutely exploded. He’s not netting $15k-$20k/month profit.
He’s truly living the Super Affiliate Lifestyle in every sense of the world. Jeff is constantly traveling, he rented a place on the beach on Southern California last winter and spent about 2 months there.
Recently he just moved to Austin, TX. You won’t believe how he spends his time:
- He’s hired a personal trainer to work with twice a week, he wants to “bulk up”!
- Jeff’s taking sailing lessons off of Lake Travis
- He’s learning Portuguese, he hired a tutor to work with him one on one.
- Oh yeah, when he finds some time, he works on his affiliate campaigns!
Check out the BMW convertible he just bought, he paid for it in cold hard cash!
I’m damn proud of him!
It took Jeff and I 4 years of blood, sweat, and tears.
Four years of taking consistent action with NOTHING to show for it.
Four years of fears and doubts. Wondering whether it would ever work, wondering if the dream, the freedom, and that elusive lifestyle (that I call the super affiliate lifestyle) was even possible.
Four years of constant frustrations and failures.
You know what? I don’t regret any of it, because it’s in those 4 years that Jeff and I developed the mindset, the wealth mentality, whatever you want to call it. We basically got our thinking straight.
And you know what, I would have, and you can ask Jeff, he would have done TWICE as much to live the life that we both do now.
Nothing is better than freedom.
I MEAN NOTHING!
You really have to experience it to see what I’m talking about.
So let me ask you : are YOU willing to put in 4 years into your affiliate marketing business to be wealthy and free for the rest of your life?
Thanks Stockshaker. I forgot to note that I’ve been trying this for the past year and have done nothing but spend money. I almost used the word “waste” but I don’t believe it’s wasteful if I can actually make it work in the long run.
The problem is that you’re right. 150 page e-books don’t help. I bought Google Cash. I bought a few others. I still have a to-do item on my list to “make back the $67 I spent on Google Cash” and I should add to it to make back all the $$ I spent on trying those techniques and failing.
I’m not giving up, but I’m tired of not having a roadmap.
Amit, I respect you because you’ve made it. But please, help us learn the ropes as much as you inspire us to.
Thank you.
Hi Nate,
First I would recommend that you go through all the affiliate marketing and Adwords posts on this blog.
Second, I’m launching a coaching program next year where I will cover all my techniques and strategies.
Hi Amit,
That sounds great. I’ve been reading a lot of your posts on this blog, which I thank you for. As for the coaching program. Do you have an idea on how much it might cost? Just a general range? Are we talking thousands of dollars, hundreds, tens (hahah.. I wish)?
Amit, what network marketing company were both of you with? I started in affiliate marketing back in 1999. I had great success until 2005, that’s when things were changing so fast with Google and tougher merchant rules that I jumped over to network marketing myself.
I discovered that was one tough nut to crack! I built a nice downline – all from internet leads, but the money was too slow to come for me. So last Sept I did a search for “super affiliate” on google and your name came up. I signed up for the PPC Classroom through your link right off. This class is just great. Between your blog and the online class I feel I am quickly getting caught back up with affiliate marketing. Thanks.
Amit, interesting how you’re talking about a coaching program.
I have not been impressed with PPC Classroom, and would be very interested to see your take on what you can bring to the table in terms of something that actually teaches you.
Honestly, if you made a course where it was completely DVD based, WATCHING YOU as you launch a campaign (from scratch, to the final stage including how to maintain), and NOT some EBOOK or AUDIO BOOKs, then I am sure (and I know I would), there would be plenty of people willing to pay top dollar.
(btw: don’t get me wrong, PPC Classroom is great for the complete new guy to the world of affiliate marketing. But, understand, that you can’t learn marketing from a few webinars, or elementary made ‘classroom’ notes.)
Google is cracking down on the easy-made money, and this makes sense. In order to survive in affiliate marketing or any online business for that matter, you have to provide something of value.
Or maybe I still believe in a world where people should provide value, and not just build a flashy-looking page to redirect a guy who doesn’t know any better, just to make a dollar as a middleman in the transaction.
BUT, Amit, i am VERY impressed with your SAA course. That made the whole PPC Classroom purchase of value, in my opinion.
He’s got balls to call himself an super affiliate with only $20,000 in profit, that’s not even a grand a day ..
Very inspirational I can totally relate. I to failed at a couple business ventures. I am extremely motivated to make this succeed for myself and my family.
Not even a grand a day Konrad? Time for a reality check for you mate! No, perhaps not the classic definition of a super affiliate.
Jeff has worked hard, he’s succeeding at something, and has a great old lifestyle. Now THAT is super!!
No, under the classic definition he might just have made it, but nowadays you really need a lot more revenue than that, to call yourself a super affiliate and not be ridiculed.
Oh and why would I need a reality check?
Hi Konrad,
Let’s get one thing straight, Jeff IS A SUPERAFFILIATE. He makes $60k in commissions a month, $15k-$20k is profit.
Sincerely,
Amit